Startup Valuation: Listen to the Market

AlleyWatch explains Discounted Cash Flow, the two elements it relies on and why they are not reliable. They recommend instead a little used method called the Guideline Public Company method. Read the report below.

Business valuation has for a long time been perceived as more art than science, which is a polite way of saying, “It’s a big, fat guess.” Nowhere is this perception more prevalent than when the discussion turns to the valuation of startups…. Startup Valuation: Why Not Listen to the Market?

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EBITDA is at the same time the most discussed and most maligned measure of business cash flow. Simply put, EBITDA is Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization. The problem with EBITDA is that too often analysts or market participants or writers want to think that there is a single measure of cash flow that […]